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CONTAINER CLOSURE.

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Patented June 14, 1921.

INVENTOR [fly/n 6'. F1452: BY /Z ATTORNEY Sioux City, in the county-of Woodbury nnwm o. RUST, or sxoox cum-Iowa eo mnInR-cmsmm Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 14, 1921.

Application filed September 14, 1920. Serial No. 410,304.

1 '0 all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN G. Rosa, a citizen of the United States, and ,a resident of. and State of Iowa,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Container-Closures, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has for its'object the prodnction of impro ved-;and simplified means for so securing radiator and gasolene tank raps that, while they may be readily removed to open the container, they cannot be lost therefrom nor readily stolen.

The invention has, for a further object, the production of an improved container closure, simple and inexpensive in construetion, yet thoroughly efficient and depend-- able when in use. 1

Theabove and other ob ects and advantages I successfully attain in the embodiments herelnal'ter described, defined 1n the appended claims and illustrated in the accompanyingr drawings, which form a part of this application and of which:

Figure l. is a front elevation of a motor vehicle radiator nerk and rap carrying a motor-meter with the device of my invention applied thereto, the parts being shown in' section, and Fig. 2 is a similar View of a vgasolene tank neck and cap, with which the (lGVltiB of my invention is shown,the parts being cut away.

Referring, now, more particularly to Fig.

1, 3 represents the crown of a radiator'havin an erterpal threaded neck, is usually threaded the rap, 5, carrying a motormeter, (l, rigidly sevurod to the cap, 5, and'having an elongated cylindrical guardrasi'ug, 7, which protects the thermometer bulb and depends centrally from the cap, 5.

To render my device readily applicable to motor vehicles not equipped therewith, I provide a short-- ryhndrical tube, 8,.1nt-ernally threaded as at 9., to he secured firmly on to the neck. 4, in lieu of the cap, 5, the

upper-end of the tube ln-iug externally threaded, as at it], to receive the rap, 5.

' I provide a yoke, ll, adapted to embrace oppositc sidos of the guard raising, 7, the upper ends of the arms of the yoke being widened and curved, as at 12, to encompass the casing and provided with ears, 13, adapted to receive bolts. l4, wher'e'by the yoke may be. firmly'clam-ped to the casing, The we of the yoke carries a rigid, depending bolt, 15, \Vllli'll passes freely through a slot, 1.6,

' represents 4, (in. which depending my hand this lOth day in a flat arm, 17 formed at one end. with an eye, 18"; pivoted on a horri ontal pin, 19, secured inthe wall of the tribe, 8. The head, 20, on the lower end ofthe bolt, 15, prevents displacement of the bolt from' the arm, 17. This construction, it will be observed, permits free rotation of the cap and the arm, 17, and is of such a length and so formed as to permit the cap to lie-removed from the neck or tu'be,- laterally, as will be clearly understood frbm"Fig. 2.

In the construction shown in Fig. 2, 21 the portion of a gasolene tank provided with a neck, 22,-threaded to receive the cap, 23, ()n to'the neck, 22, I thread a. tube, 24, similar to the tube, 8, and the upper end of which is stdaptedto receive the cap,

From the center of the cap rigidly depends a bolt, 25, which passes freely thrmigh the link, 17, constructed and pivoted to the tube as described with reference to Fig. 1.' Obviously}; thetubes, 8 and 24, maybe in tegral parts of the containers,

Hav ng thus described my invention, what Iclaim as new and desire to seeureliy ters Patent of the UnitedS'tates is:

1. A closure for" a container having a tubular .nec'kromprising a cap adapted to be rotated to secure and remove it and. from the neck,-a central bolt depending from the cap, a slotted arm ivoted to the neck to oscillate vertically an through which the bolt passes, and a stop on the bolt below the arm. i

.2. An attuchmenit for-a container-having a neeloand a closure adapted tov be secured to and removed from the neck by rotation, and having a central depending part, comprising a member adapted to be secured to said part and having a depending bolt, a slotted arin pivoted to the neckto oscillate vertically and 1 through which the bolt passes, anti a stop on the bolt below the arm.

, An attachment for ac ntainer havinga threaded IlQA'lC, and a elosiile adapted to be screwed on tothe neck and having-a central part, romprising a tube. adapted to be screwed onto the neck, and threaded to receive the closure, a. clamp to be secured to said part and having a" central depending bolt, a slotted armpivotedto the tube to osrillate vertically and through which the bolt passes, and a stop on the bolt below the arm. In testimony whereof, I lmve'herennto set of September, 1920.

EDWIN (i. RUST. 

